Do Less Project

I attended the Do Less session held at The Path yoga studio, and taught by Tim on May 24 and I felt blissful.
It was a lovely experience, filled with supportive restorative poses, time for tea and chats connecting with community, all with the warm guidance of Tim, calm and grounded, and happy as ever.
I highly recommend this workshop for anyone needing to relax, unwind, escape, find stillness — which applies to most living within western society!
Looking forward to many more Do Less! wt friends and family.
$ 45 for a 3 hour workshop.

Tim’s studio is nothing short of amazing. Everything in the room needs to be there, and everything lends itself to the positive energy in the room.
It is the perfect setting for a private class with Tim. You will never feel so relaxed, nurtured, and cared for as you will after one of his wonderful mixes of Restorative Yoga and energy work. Pure bliss.

Inspired by some Twitter flutter, I purchased two tickets to Bring The Balance’s «Do More Less» workshop, for Peter S and myself, conveniently just post Valentine’s Day.
It’s the first time I’ve looked at the price of a yoga class/​workshop and thought — yes! That is fantastic value for the event. For $ 40 you get 3 hours of restorative and yin yoga, a head massage, a foot rub and reiki while you zen out on your comfy mat. Only feedback — make the foot rub longer!
What to expect: a very quiet, meditative like evening. Some acoustic music, candles, and at the end — bliss balls. What’s lovely is that Chris + Tim do all of the work, so you truly can do more less. From setting up the room, to helping adjust your props, and putting everything away after, I felt like I was floating home.
Warning: like any good drug, probably a good idea to steer clear of operating any heavy machinery after one of these evenings.

I attended the «Do Less…» workshop this evening at The Path Yoga Studio, which I purchased through Bring the Balance (Tim Cyr ran the event with Chris Brandt). I found the workshop listed on Unilocal events a while back, and bought my ticket as an early birthday present to myself (I like to get myself a class or workshop as a personal bday present). After tonight’s workshop, I’ve decided to continue celebrating my birthday all year long with the monthly «Do Less» workshop series … The 11^th happens every month, so I can pretend it’s like a miniature birthday again, right? Right!
I love yin yoga, but I had never tried restorative yoga before, so I looked forward to a combination of the familiar and the new. I had built it up a bit in my expectations (being my very own birthday present and all that), and the actual experience managed to exceed my expectations.
The space was fabulous (see my review for The Path), and the workshop itself felt like a yummy and cozy vacation inside a comfy nest. During the 3-​hour class (which did not feel that long at all), we did relatively few poses, as is characteristic of yin & restorative yoga, and the instructors’ vibe combined with the beautiful space to create an oasis of deep and genuine serenity in the middle of my crazy-​end-​of-​semester life. I loved Tim’s & Chris’ fun and light-​hearted approach because it felt genuine, and was based on a deep respect for the healing power of the practice, and for each of us as individuals. At the core of the fun was a real and true principle: trying to do «too much,» as many/​most of us do, is not a bad thing to do, but it does require a balancing effort of «doing less» in order to preserve and maintain our good health.
So, I look forward to continuing my own personal insanity of work and school in the new year, but now with the balancing effect of these «doing less» moments of bliss. Oh, and they promised us that the scrumptious chocolate «bliss balls» we ate had negative calories, which capped off a perfect evening. I’m also looking into to their weekend retreat in Whistler next June. It’s a yoga retreat with hot tubs and happy hour. Sign me up for that…